James Duckworth and Colton Smith will play each other in the 1^st round of the US Men’s Clay Court Championship for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 3. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Colton Smith who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Colton Smith is the pick to win this match.
Colton Smith -> 1.56
James Duckworth -> 2.43

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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Colton Smith

There is no head to head record between James Duckworth and Colton Smith since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

James Duckworth

Ranked no. 89, the Australian will start his run in Houston after he played his last match in the Morelia Challenger where he lost 1-6 6-2 6-4 to Popko in the final on the 30^th of March.

James has a composed 10-10 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

This will be the first match of the season on clay.

The Australian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Morelia Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 501-329 record. He has a positive 107-60 record on clay.

Previously in Houston

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2024. See his history.

Colton Smith

Ranked no. 200 (career-high), Smith got to the 1^st round after defeating Evan Zhu 6-1 6-2

and Liam Draxl 6-4 6-4.

In the qualifications, Smith had a good straight sets win against Draxl (6-4 6-4). During the match Smith scored 71 points vs Draxl’s 58. Smith was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.

About the serving games, Smith made 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Colton Smith was quite effective on serve to win 80% (32/40) of his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Draxl twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Smith started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 59% of the points he played.

His best result of the season was winning the title the Cleveland Challenger where he beat Eliot Spizzirri in the final 6-4 6-7(6) 6-3.

Colton has an aggregate 12-3 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Houston

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

Tennis Scores in Houston

• Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Learner TienTien (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Rinky Hijikata/Jordan ThompsonHijikata/Jordan Thompson – Robert Cash/James TracyCash/James Tracy (3-6 7-6¹ 11-9) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Cristian GarinGarin – Alexander RitschardRitschard (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Taro DanielDaniel (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

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• Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• Michael MmohMmoh – Adam WaltonWalton (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Tommy PaulPaul – Christian GarinGarin (1-3) – H2H and prediction
• Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Brandon HoltHolt – Corentin DenollyDenolly (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Christopher EubanksEubanks (2-0) – H2H and prediction